G'day Kirk, Sorry to hear of your troubles. I use one of the larger Toyota Corolla sedans with Thule bars and Rola self-aligning cradles (the design of my Thule cradles had a few weak points). It will take two large sea kayaks. For the front tie down I use a sawn off tow bar bolt with a DRing, For the rear I tie down to an unused tow bar. Fuel consumption is 6 to 7L/100km on the open road with one kayak, which is OK but not brilliant. If I find myself in strong cross winds I drive slowly and pull of the road regularly to check everything.. Would it be worth asking for tie off points, loops or DRing to be glassed in to the bow and stern while you're getting your boats repaired. A local boat repairer did a very neat job for me making a steel reinforced fibreglass and gelcoat coated ring for security purposes on my Fenn GT ski. All the best, PeterO Kirk wrote: Someone suggested just tying a loop on the bow of the v12.jpg (http://www.epickayaks.com/product/product/epic-v12). It's shaped very poorly for putting on a bow line, there's no upsweep at the bow. The only place a bow line would be secure would be at the front edge of the cockpit about 9 feet back from the actual bow. Drilling a hole at the bow and fashioning a grommet line opening would work, if I had sufficient fabricating skills - but I'm not messing with the carbon/kevlar/nomex layup to do that modification.. Kirk. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sun Sep 14 2014 - 18:27:52 PDT
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